In Quotes: NLDS Game Three

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Oct 5, 2008 6:30PM

"We didn't play well. We didn't deserve to win. We played well all year and for us to have three games like this is shocking." - Mark DeRosa [MLB]

"We were expecting more. I want to do more than play the part of the good loser." - Lou Piniella [MLB]

"We played three games like this before in the regular season. You just can't afford to do it in the postseason. We just picked a bad time to play like this." - Derek Lee [MLB]

"This was the worst baseball collapse and complete fall from potential that I have seen." - Rick Telander

"Well, thanks for watching, Chicago. Very sorry, Ron Santo. Too bad, Ernie Banks. Looks like it's Groundhog Day all over again, Bill Murray. We know you've seen this before with those huge eyeglasses, Harry Caray, even from way up there where you are. Cubs lose." - Mike Downey

"The butterfly walks and anxious errors in the first two games put them in a hole they had little chance to escape. By the time it struck midnight back home, their magic season was a three-and-out pumpkin." - Gordon Wittenmyer

"Another 100 years of this kind of baseball is enough to squeeze the life out of every Cubs fans alive, plus the next two or three generations. It was that agonizing for Cubs fans to watch, and for the players as well. Next year they'll get to answer questions about the 101-year curse." - Paul Sullivan